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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Smeazel" data-source="post: 5602746" data-attributes="member: 44896">OK, I was just going by Wikipedia... like I said, if you had sources other than Wikipedia, that's different.  (I admit I hadn't even been aware the berbalang had mythological roots until very recently when I tried to search to see if it had appeared in the Tome of Horrors or some other OGL product, and ran across <a href="http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26955" target="_blank">a post somewhere</a> that numbered it among D&D monsters with mythological origins -- till then I had no idea it wasn't purely an invention of Albie Fiore, who's credited with its creation in the 1E Fiend Folio.)  If you've read about the berbalang elsewhere, I have no reason not to trust your account of it, and your analysis of the account quoted in Wikipedia seems reasonable to me.As I said, it's a moot point for what I want to do with it, since I just wanted to use the D&D version anyway, but still it's interesting to know more about the mythological underpinnings.  (Out of curiosity, do you remember any of the other sources you ran across it in?  I'd be interested in looking them up myself, and maybe editing the Wikipedia article to give a more comprehensive description.)</blockquote>